http://www.aliciakeys.com/ph/keyed-in/alicia-keys-making-expensive-mistakes-using-fame-positive-way-and-fitting-anywhereI don’t do manufactured pop.
I’m not a factory, just churning out music. I’m a very emotional individual, so it does tend to come from what I’m experiencing and what I’m seeing. And anyhow…
… record labels are close to becoming extinct.
I don’t blame people for only buying one track at a time rather than whole albums. I think that people are totally fed up with having garbage music. I think that’s where the record companies really went wrong, because they helped to manufacture these albums that were not full of quality. They thought they could fool the masses forever, and now they’re totally out of the game. I want every song on my albums to be incredible. I want them all to be mind-blowing.
My first record company destroyed me.
When I played them my first album they told me it was no better than a demo. They said, ‘You don’t have anything. You’re wasting our time.’ That just devastated me – three years of killing myself with work, all for nothing. Thank God Columbia Records thought otherwise.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1279408/Alicia-Keys-Bono-told-fame-currency--use-lose-it.html?ITO=1490 what a sound comment from the queen of keys.
just bought her recent compilation album & just listened to it this morning before going online. alicia's really right. during her early years i only noticed her on a per single basis. i was not a fan.
but after hearing her compilation - "The Queen of Keys" i am simply awed by her talent. i think i'm converted to her. me's really a late bloomer. haha!
but nonetheless, alicia's always earned my respect.
hail to the queen of keys!
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